Cinder-guard.



No. 726,330. PATENTED APR. 28, 1903.

S. F. B. MORSE & S. R. TUGGLE.

GINDER GUARD. APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 20. 1900.

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SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE AND SAMUEL RITCHIE TUGGLE, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.

ClNDER-GUARD.

srncimcnrionrorming part of Letters Patent No. 726,330, dated April 28, 1903.

Application filed August 20, 1900. Serial No. 27,464:- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL FINLEY BREEsE MORSE and SAMUEL RITCHIE Too- GLE, citizens of the United States, residing at Houston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Cinder-Guard, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cinder-guards for railway-cars, and particularly to that class adapted to be attached to a car adjacent to the windows thereof.

The object of the invention is to present a device of the character specified which shall in a simple, ready, and thoroughly efficient manner deflect cinders, dust, and other sub stances carried by the currents of air created by a moving train and prevent their entrance through the windows, and, furthermore, to provide a cinder-guard which may be readily adjusted to be operable from either side of the window, thus to be effective in use in any direction in'which the train may be running.

With these and other objects in View, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction and combination of parts of a cinder-guard, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts, there is illustrated one form of embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the elements therein exhibited may be varied or changed as to shape, proportion, and exact manner of assemblage without. departing from the spirit thereof,

and in these drawings Figure 1 is a view in sectional elevation of a portion of a car-window frame, showing the manner of applying the guard thereto. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the guard removed from the window. Fig. 3 is a 'view in horizontal section of a portion of the windowframe and guard, taken on the line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a view in top plan of the guard. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detail view in elevation of a portion of the shield or deflector, showing more particularly the construction of the reversible locking-bolt associated therewith.

Referring to the drawings and more particularly to Fig. 1 thereof, 1 designates an ordinary car-Window frame having the usual sash-grooves 2 at each side and an outwardlybeveled sill 3. As these parts may be of the usual or any preferred construction, further description of them is deemed unnecessary. Associated with the window-frame is the guard, comprising in part a supporting member or upright 4, which is by preference constructed with outer deflecting-faces 5, disposed in planes at right angles to each other and provided with catch or .bolt receiving openings 6 intermediate of its ends, there being one of these openings in each face, the openings being disposed in the same horizontal plane. If the upright be formed of a material that would be easily worn by a catch or bolt striking against it, the openings may have striker-plates 7 disposed over them, or if the said uprights be constructed of a light soft metal the striker-plates may be formed of harder metal for the purpose above defined. From the top of the upright to a point a short distance above the bottom thereof a supporting-web 8 extends inward and is provided with a head-flange 9, projecting beyond opposite sides of its inner terminal, the flanges being of a depth equal to that of the grooves 2 with which they removably engage, and by this arrangement the faces of the web' are permitted to rest against the window-frame outside of the said grooves and thus be braced, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The head-flange 9 extends from the lower terminal of the web upward a distance equal to that of the lower edge of the lower rail of the sash 10 when the latter is raised, and the upper terminal 11 of the flange is reversely beveled to the rail of the sash 10, thereby to interlock with. the latter when the guard is arranged in operative position. The lower terminals of the web and of the head-flange are beveled upwardly and inwardly at an angle corresponding to that of the sill 3 over which they are disposed, and the lower terminal of the flange is provided with an elastic or rubber buffer 12, which bears directly on the inner upper portion of the sill, the buifer operating to absorb vibrations, and thus prevent rattling and also outward slipping movement. A further function for the buffer is that it serves to hold the lower terminal of the web out of engagement with the sill, thereby to prevent injury or marring thereof.

By disposing the lower terminal of the web some distance above the like terminal of the upright the latter is permitted to drop below the outer portion of the sill, and thereby deflect those air-currents that are commonly created close to the under side of the windowsill and which have a tendency to pass through the window into the car.

The inner upper portion of the web is formed with a recess 13, to receive or provide a seat for the lower portion of the upper sash which is employed in some car structures or the lower part of a transom as employed in other car structures, and by this upward extension of the web at the distance indicated above the lower end of the lower sash entrance through a lower car-window of down-currents of air is prevented.

The head-flange 9 has, as stated, an interlocking engagement with the window-frame, and under ordinary circumstances this will be all that will be required to retain the guard in position; but, if preferred, positive locking means may be employed to secure this result and may be effected by providing the head-flange at any preferred point intermediate of its ends with a locking device 14, comprising a horizontally-disposed fulcrumbar 15, having an operating-handle '16, projecting inward through a suitable slot 17 in the inner face of the flange 9, and on each extremity a head 18, having an elliptical catch extension 19 with reduced or sharpened edges, the said edges being beveled outwardly, as shown in Fig. 3. The major diameter of each catch is greater than the width of the grooves 2 and the minor diameter of less width, so that when the flanges are positioned within the grooves if the fulcrum-bar be turned to bring the extensions 19 with their major diameters at right angles to the vertical walls of the grooves the catch extensions will bite into the walls of the grooves, and thus firmly hold the entire guard in position and against possibility of rattling or working loose from jars or Vibrations incident to the running of the train.

Secured to the upper and lower ends of the uprights are segmental bearing-plates 20, and pivotally connected therewith are upper and lower supporting-arms 21, the free ends of which are connected with the terminals of a pintle-rod 22, to which the guard 23 is attached bya plurality of pivot-ears 24, through which the said rod extends. This guard is dished to presenta substantially convex surface to the currents of air that impinge it, thereby deflecting cinders, dust, and unconsumed products of combustion away from the guard. The guard is disposed in such relation to the window 1 that an interspace 24 will always be provided between the edge of the guard and the adjacent face of the window, thus to cause cinders and the like to be thrown through the interspace and away from the carwindow. The pintle-rod not only serves as a means for permitting reversal of the guard to adjust it according to the direction in which a train is moving, but also operates as a brace to resist any tendency on the part of the guard to yield or bend from the force of the wind.

In order to hold the guard in its adjusted position, a spring-actuated catch 'or bolt 25 is employed, consisting of a body portion 26, having a slot 27, through which projects the shank 28 of a lug 29, secured for swiveled movement to the guard opposite the intermediate ear 24, one end of the body being reduced to present a bolt member 30 to enter,

theopenings 6 of the upright to hold the guard at the desired adjustment and the other end of the body being provided with an offset 31, constituting a finger-hold by which the bolt may be retracted. The body portion is provided adjacent to the bolt member with a guide 32 in which works a rod 33, carried by the guide 29, a spring 34 coiled upon the rod and bearing against the guide and the lug 29 operating normally to keep the bolt member 30 seated within one of the openings 6. By thus pivotally associating the catch with the guard its position may 'be readily reversed when that of the guard is reversed, thus to render the catch operative for holding the guard properly positioned with relation to the direction of movement of the train.

By having the opposite edges of the guard curved, as shown, the deflecting operation sought is easily obtained in either position of the guard, so that a passenger may enjoy the comfort of an open window without the liability of having his linens r clothing soiled in the least.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- l. A device of the character specified, comprising a supporting member having outwardly-projecting intersecting angular deflecting faces, and a reversible guard nor mally held in a plane at right angles to either of the said faces.

2. A device of the character specified, comprising a supporting member having angular deflecting-faces, a guard movably attached to said member and adapted for movement from one face to the other and also for pivotal movement to effect reversal of its deflecting-- surface relatively to either of the said faces, and a reversible locking device carried by the guard to interlock with an opening in either of the faces.

3. A device of the character specified, comprising a supporting member having angular faces and upper and lower bearing plates, arms pivotally associated with the plates, a guard mounted for pivotal movement between the arms, and means carried by the guard to faces, and a reversible locking device carried lockit in spaced relation to either of the faces. by the guard to interlock with an opening in 4:. A device of the character specified, comeither of the faces. prising a supporting member having angular In testimony that we claim the foregoing as I 5 deflecting-faces and means to interlock with our own we have hereto affixed our signatures a fixed part of a window-casing, a guard movin the presence of two witnesses. ably attached to said member and adapted SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE. for swinging movement from one face to the SAMUEL RITCHIE TUGGLE other, and also for pivotal movement about a Witnesses: vertical axis to effect reversal of its deflect- W. H. NORRIS, ing-surface relatively to either of the said OTTO PAPE. 

